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Rafaela Kokkotou

14 Published Stories

Rafaela Kokkotou's Books and Stories

Discarded Wife Is A Hidden Billionaire Heiress

Discarded Wife Is A Hidden Billionaire Heiress

Modern
5.0
For three years, Adah played the role of the humble, devoted wife to billionaire Atticus Sterling, erasing her own identity to maintain their cold marriage. On their third anniversary, he came home smelling of his mistress's signature perfume. When the other woman called, he didn't hesitate to leave, and when Adah desperately reached out to stop him, he violently wrenched his arm away in disgust. "Don't touch me!" She stumbled backward, her head violently connecting with the sharp corner of the marble fireplace. As darkness swallowed her whole, the man she loved didn't even look back, leaving her unconscious on the floor to rush to his lover's side. He had always mocked her, thinking she was just a poor, desperate woman who couldn't even afford next month's rent without his charity. He assumed she would always cling to him like a pathetic parasite. But that brutal blow shattered the mental cage she had been locked in for three years. Through the blinding pain, forgotten images flooded her mind in a tidal wave: a violent yacht explosion against a summer sky, endless lines of encrypted code, and her father's dying words. Why had she endured such humiliating abuse for a man who treated her like a discarded piece of furniture? When Adah opened her eyes again, the timid housewife was gone. She remembered everything—she was Adah Beaumont, the sole heir to the massive Beaumont fortune and the world's most elusive hacker, and her first act of rebirth would be handing Atticus a signed divorce agreement.
Reborn As The Shadow Alpha's Vengeful Luna

Reborn As The Shadow Alpha's Vengeful Luna

Werewolf
4.3
I died at the hands of my own family. My sister framed me for treason. My brother swung the silver blade. My parents called it a necessary sacrifice. My body was dumped in the barren lands like trash-and the last thing I heard was my sister whispering, "The house will finally be quiet now." But the Moon Goddess gave me a second chance. I woke up ten years in the past, drowning in the same lake where Kandace once tried to kill me. This time, I know the truth. I know every lie she'll tell. Every manipulation. Every move they'll make to destroy me. And I know the secret hidden in my own blood. A poison that will save Kandace today-and rot her from the inside out, one drop at a time. When my sister's fake drowning attempt turns into a real medical crisis, my family comes crawling. They need my blood to save her. They think I'm still the weak, obedient Omega they can use and discard. They have no idea that every drop they take is a thread in their own noose. While Kandace's body burns from the inside, I make my demands. Release my adoptive parents from their secret prison. Apologize-all of them, on their knees. Watch as my perfect sister claws her own face to ribbons in a hallucinogenic frenzy. And when The Matriarch herself arrives to investigate the chaos? I stand in front of her-calm, disheveled, the picture of a victim-and let my family's own cruelty speak for itself. They wanted a monster. They created one. And this time, I'm holding the blade. "I am just an Omega. I don't even have my wolf. What power do I have to do such a thing?" The power of knowing exactly how to destroy you.
Love, Lies, And A Second Life

Love, Lies, And A Second Life

Horror
5.0
The air in the room was stale, thick with the smell of antiseptic and despair. They told me I was sick, that grief had broken my mind. My mother-in-law, Martha, would visit, her concern a chilling mask, whispering to doctors how I was hallucinating, a danger to myself and my son, Billy. "She doesn' t understand that David is gone," she' d insist, loud enough for me to hear. But the real horror wasn't my madness; it was the truth. Three days after my husband, David, a decorated police officer, was supposedly killed, I stood at his memorial, expected to mourn. The man in the casket wasn't David. It was Mark, his identical twin, missing the faded scar David always had. That night, I found David, not dead, but alive in our summer cabin, with his childhood sweetheart, Emily Peterson. He confessed it all with chilling indifference: Mark was killed in a shootout, and David seized the chance for a new life, free from me and Billy. "I never loved you," he said, as if explaining a simple math problem. "It was always Emily." I tried to tell everyone-his mother, his captain-but they looked at me with pity, already conditioned by Martha and David' s lies. They had me committed to a white room, and David married Emily. My four-year-old son, Billy, was left in their care, crying for me every night. Then came the unbearable news: Billy was dead, a "tragic accident" from an overdose of cough medicine. My world shattered. Desperate, I fashioned a noose, remembering Billy' s bright laugh, the life David had stolen. My only regret was that David would never face justice. I kicked the chair away. Darkness took me. Then, a blinding light, and I was back on my living room couch, the day David was supposedly killed. I wasn' t dead. I was back. Martha' s face, a mask of practiced sadness, now held a triumphant curl. I heard David' s voice from the hallway, "Is she stable?" "She' s fragile, but she bought it," Martha replied. "She' ll break, just like we planned. We' ll have her committed, and Billy will be ours." "Good," David said. "Make sure she doesn' t get near the body. Mark didn' t have my scar." This time, I was not the grieving widow. I was the executioner.
The Daughter Who Refused to Break

The Daughter Who Refused to Break

Mafia
5.0
Emily Callahan had finally done it. Full scholarship to the state university, a dream come true for her and a testament to her late father' s legacy, her mother Susan beaming with pride from their beloved Sunrise Cafe. But the aroma of coffee turned to the stench of fear when local crime boss Paddy O' Doyle, whose offers for the cafe were always refused, stormed in. What began as intimidation quickly became a brutal assault, leaving Susan battered and their cafe in ruins. This attack was no isolated incident; it was just the first domino. The police chief turned a blind eye, revealing a pervasive corruption that shielded the O' Doyles from justice. Emily' s scholarship was mysteriously revoked, her future snatched away. Then came the orchestrated smear campaign, turning the community against her, followed by a terrifying home invasion where her dog was brutally murdered and her father' s cherished Medal of Honor desecrated. Now, even her mother' s vital medical care was at risk. How could a hero' s family be so horribly betrayed and abandoned, their pleas for justice met with silence or outright hostility by the very system meant to protect them? The injustice burned, transforming her grief into a searing rage. With every official avenue blocked and nowhere left to turn, Emily clutched her father' s Medal of Honor, a symbol of everything good and true, and embarked on a desperate cross-country journey to seek out the only man who could possibly help: her father' s former commanding officer, a four-star General.